The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.